No history, humanities, fine arts, etc. It makes for a more well-balanced person. It should be required.
I emphatically disagree with this statement. I do think that it's important for students to be exposed to a well-rounded education in primary and secondary school, but most people know what they want to focus on in college, and for $10K-$30K/year they should be allowed to stockpile as much knowledge as possible in their chosen fields.
Certainly universities should offer choice, and most, if not all, do (even MIT allows you to major in Humanities!), but don't force students to take course that have absolutely no relevance to a person's chosen profession.
From the engineering programs I've seen lately, it seems as though they're shoving a bunch of formulae at the students and are saying "Here, memorize these." without explaining/proving how/why they work.
I'm an engineer ('95) who works with engineers of all ages from Universities around the USA (MIT, CalTech, UMass, UCLA, Temple, Clarkson, Purdue, Cornell, WPI, RPI, Tufts, etc). Based on comparing my college experience with those of my peers, I've not found the above to be true at all. Most schools seem to allow things like open book exams because they know the important thing is the application of the knowledge, not the knowledge itself.
I work in the transportation industry, and I've seen many demonstrations of "intellegent" traffic monitoring capabailities. At each one of these gatherings, someone always asks the DOT rep "can this be used for traffic enforcement?" and the DOT rep always gives the same answer:
Yes the capability for traffic enforcement exists, but it won't be implemented for one simple reason - if the systems are used for traffc enforcement, people who are cited for traffic violations will be able to subpoena info from the DOT, and the DOT's do not want to divert their budgets to chasing after subpoenas! The DOT's don't want to get into the business of traffic enforcement for revenue enchancement, because in the end, it will cause more harm then good.
The Green Line is a light rail transit (LRT) system. LRT systems, by definition (as least according to APTA) run at street level and are designed to move with local traffic. As a consequence, LRT trains often stop for cars and traffic lights.
You find the same thing on LRT lines in Portland, Pittsburgh, San Francisco (MUNI, not BART), St. Louis, Dallas, etc.
The Red and Orange lines in Boston (and NYC's subway system) are rapid transit lines that run on exclusive rights-of-way with minimal headways. That may be a little closer to what you were expecting.
Why is it so hard for people to understand that speeding kills and, no matter how they would like to believe otherwise, they're only average or below the average drivers?
Because it's not necessarily true? Exspecially when the posted speed limits are below the 85th-percentile speed on the road.
Lucas might be trying to protect himself. If a fan movie coincidently has a plotline that is similar to that of a future Lucas/Lucasfilm project (Star Wars or otherwise), Lucas could be worried about copyight lawsuits.
I graduated from MIT in EECS without seeing ONE wintel box
When did you graduate? I graduated in '95 without seeing seeing Windows boxen, but things have changed there in the last couple of years. The Tech had an article a little while ago about students demanding more WinNT machines. *sigh*
What are you talking about? MS has integrated color management in Win98SE, ME, 2k and XP!
No matter how much fiddling I do with the so-called color managment options under Win2k, I can never get color printouts from MS Office to match what's on the screen (red lines on screen become pink, gray lines become purple, and so on).
When I print these same documents from my PowerBook to the same printer, the colors come out perfect.
And don't get so smugabout Apple. They LOST integrated color management in OSX!
So that "ColorSync" panel I see in the OS X "System Preferences" app is a figment of my imagination?
We all know that the colors you see on your monitor don't exactly end up being the same as the colors you get on your inkjet printer, or on your LCD, or in real life.
Why is it gonna take MS 3 more years to implement what Apple did 10 years ago?
(Yeah, I know it's not quite the same thing, but MS still hasn't given us a simple OS-level color matching system!)
"If someone figured out how to unlock the gas in the gas station, people would be outraged," Mr. Eisner added. "They wouldn't say to the oil industry, `You need a different business model.' "
If you go to any gas station in the country (except NJ & OR) you can pretty much drive up to the pump, pump your gas, and drive away without paying (how many times have you seen "please pay before pumping" on the pump?). But for some reason, most people actually pay for gas anyway. Maybe there's a lesson here?
I remember reading several years ago about using beat frequencies to generate sound in the audible range. The big problem was that to generate audible sounds using beats, the beating frequencies have to delivered at fairly high amplitudes ( >153 dBL IIRC) and it is unclear what effect high sound levels in the ultrasonic range would have on humans.
Ever since Pompei announced his research, the beat research seems to have died.
BTW, if anyone is interested in working with Pompei, send him an email. He is very accommodating to inquiries.
There is none of the tight CLI-GUI integration seen in AmigaOS or BeOS or even Windows
Depends on what you mean by "tight CLI-GUI integration." With the AppleScript do shell commend, or Realbasic's shell method, you can write GUI wrappers for CLI commends.
For example, I wrote a Realbasic program that calls TeTeX's texexec macro for combining PDF's. Now I can drag and drop PDF files onto an icon, and out pops my concatenated PDF
Consodering the readership of this site (you know, all you people who don't mind building you own computer out of a can opener & duct tape... and I'm sure there are plenty of you who believe that "real men use assembly"), I'm real supprised no one has suggested building your own speakers.
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No history, humanities, fine arts, etc. It makes for a more well-balanced person. It should be required.
I emphatically disagree with this statement. I do think that it's important for students to be exposed to a well-rounded education in primary and secondary school, but most people know what they want to focus on in college, and for $10K-$30K/year they should be allowed to stockpile as much knowledge as possible in their chosen fields.
Certainly universities should offer choice, and most, if not all, do (even MIT allows you to major in Humanities!), but don't force students to take course that have absolutely no relevance to a person's chosen profession.
From the engineering programs I've seen lately, it seems as though they're shoving a bunch of formulae at the students and are saying "Here, memorize these." without explaining/proving how/why they work.
I'm an engineer ('95) who works with engineers of all ages from Universities around the USA (MIT, CalTech, UMass, UCLA, Temple, Clarkson, Purdue, Cornell, WPI, RPI, Tufts, etc). Based on comparing my college experience with those of my peers, I've not found the above to be true at all. Most schools seem to allow things like open book exams because they know the important thing is the application of the knowledge, not the knowledge itself.
I work in the transportation industry, and I've seen many demonstrations of "intellegent" traffic monitoring capabailities. At each one of these gatherings, someone always asks the DOT rep "can this be used for traffic enforcement?" and the DOT rep always gives the same answer:
Yes the capability for traffic enforcement exists, but it won't be implemented for one simple reason - if the systems are used for traffc enforcement, people who are cited for traffic violations will be able to subpoena info from the DOT, and the DOT's do not want to divert their budgets to chasing after subpoenas! The DOT's don't want to get into the business of traffic enforcement for revenue enchancement, because in the end, it will cause more harm then good.
Move along, nothing to see here...
Let's also hope there's something to muffle that 600 Hz whine (which is close to the peak of human hearing sensitivity)
Just a nit: the "peak of human hearing sensitivity is 4kHz," 600 Hz is 4 octaves away...
in Microsoft terms, $150 million is a drop in the bucket and was surprised that it made a big a deal as it did.
In Apple tems, $150 million is a drop in the bucket, even during the so-called "dark days"...
The Green Line is a light rail transit (LRT) system. LRT systems, by definition (as least according to APTA) run at street level and are designed to move with local traffic. As a consequence, LRT trains often stop for cars and traffic lights.
You find the same thing on LRT lines in Portland, Pittsburgh, San Francisco (MUNI, not BART), St. Louis, Dallas, etc.
The Red and Orange lines in Boston (and NYC's subway system) are rapid transit lines that run on exclusive rights-of-way with minimal headways. That may be a little closer to what you were expecting.
Why is it so hard for people to understand that speeding kills and, no matter how they would like to believe otherwise, they're only average or below the average drivers?
Because it's not necessarily true? Exspecially when the posted speed limits are below the 85th-percentile speed on the road.
See the MUTCD for more info.
Lucas might be trying to protect himself. If a fan movie coincidently has a plotline that is similar to that of a future Lucas/Lucasfilm project (Star Wars or otherwise), Lucas could be worried about copyight lawsuits.
I graduated from MIT in EECS without seeing ONE wintel box
When did you graduate? I graduated in '95 without seeing seeing Windows boxen, but things have changed there in the last couple of years. The Tech had an article a little while ago about students demanding more WinNT machines. *sigh*
What are you talking about? MS has integrated color management in Win98SE, ME, 2k and XP!
No matter how much fiddling I do with the so-called color managment options under Win2k, I can never get color printouts from MS Office to match what's on the screen (red lines on screen become pink, gray lines become purple, and so on).
When I print these same documents from my PowerBook to the same printer, the colors come out perfect.
And don't get so smugabout Apple. They LOST integrated color management in OSX!
So that "ColorSync" panel I see in the OS X "System Preferences" app is a figment of my imagination?
We all know that the colors you see on your monitor don't exactly end up being the same as the colors you get on your inkjet printer, or on your LCD, or in real life.
Why is it gonna take MS 3 more years to implement what Apple did 10 years ago?
(Yeah, I know it's not quite the same thing, but MS still hasn't given us a simple OS-level color matching system!)
Or just have your "VB guys" spend ten minutes learning Realbasic or AppleScript Studio and continue on your merry way.
From the article:
"If someone figured out how to unlock the gas in the gas station, people would be outraged," Mr. Eisner added. "They wouldn't say to the oil industry, `You need a different business model.' "
If you go to any gas station in the country (except NJ & OR) you can pretty much drive up to the pump, pump your gas, and drive away without paying (how many times have you seen "please pay before pumping" on the pump?). But for some reason, most people actually pay for gas anyway. Maybe there's a lesson here?
I remember reading several years ago about using beat frequencies to generate sound in the audible range. The big problem was that to generate audible sounds using beats, the beating frequencies have to delivered at fairly high amplitudes ( >153 dBL IIRC) and it is unclear what effect high sound levels in the ultrasonic range would have on humans.
Ever since Pompei announced his research, the beat research seems to have died.
BTW, if anyone is interested in working with Pompei, send him an email. He is very accommodating to inquiries.
Depends on what you mean by "tight CLI-GUI integration." With the AppleScript do shell commend, or Realbasic's shell method, you can write GUI wrappers for CLI commends.
For example, I wrote a Realbasic program that calls TeTeX's texexec macro for combining PDF's. Now I can drag and drop PDF files onto an icon, and out pops my concatenated PDF
I know you get get close to CD quality using DBX or Dolby S noise reduction, but that introduced its own issues
Analog tape is about 105 db
I have to disagree. Reel-to-reel tape may have a SNR of 105 dB, but plain ole' cassette tape has a much lower SNR, around 60-70 dB IIRC.
CD's have a dynamic range of 96 dB, and a typical SNR of 90+ dB.
105 dB SNR is golden ear good.
Refresh my memory... did Dubya call for a "crusade" before or after September 11?
Check out Brian Steele's DIY Subwoofer page.
Also, just to toot my own horn, check out my DIY project.